Akbar

#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births

Peak · boys
1975 · 21 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
597
since 1960

Akbar over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Akbar has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #2,134, 1975boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,44613
2024#5,65916
2023#7,28911
2022#8,9908
2021#7,08911
2020#8,7398
2019#10,8036
2018#6,70312
2017#6,68512
2016#7,15711
2015#5,50716
2014#8,1309
2013#9,6557
2012#9,7097
2011#5,67515
2010#9,6937
2009#8,3109
2008#8,3249
2007#12,3675
2006#6,90411
2005#9,1157
2004#5,49214
2003—
2002#9,3926
2001#4,30218
2000#8,2097
1999#6,5309
1998#5,46611
1997#6,1009
1996#5,53510
1995#4,50813
1994—
1993#6,2288
1992#5,6609
1991#4,47612
1990#5,8238
1989#4,81110
1988#4,7869
1987#5,4597
1986#4,8538
1985#6,5235
1984—
1983#4,1419
1982#4,5938
1981#3,60111
1980#3,83810
1979#2,77716
1978#2,56817
1977#2,36119
1976#2,24520
1975#2,13421
1974#3,12011
1973#3,4459
1972#3,6228
1971#4,3756
1970#4,7245
1969#3,0629
1968#3,3657
1967#3,9665
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1965#3,2447
1964#4,0395
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1962#4,0335
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First appearance
1960

The first year at least five boys were named Akbar! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1961–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Akbar is popular in 1980

No state had 5 or more boys named Akbar in 1980, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Akbar
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 787 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #6,446)
  • 2,293 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #6,446)
  • 939 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1960
  • Peaked 1975 at #2,134 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 74,350
  • Highest: 1 in 74,350 boys born in 1975 were named Akbar (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1970s
  • 22.1% of all boys named Akbar (132) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s44#3,062 (1969)#3,625
1970s132#2,134 (1975)#3,137
1980s77#3,601 (1981)#4,734
1990s89#4,476 (1991)#5,592
2000s86#4,302 (2001)#8,046
2010s102#5,507 (2015)#7,972
2020s67#5,659 (2024)#7,369

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Akbar in 1980

boys
#3,838
10 births · 1 in 178,395 boys

Top boys' names in 1980

  1. #1Michael68,683
  2. #2Christopher49,079
  3. #3Jason48,164
  4. #4David41,891
  5. #5James39,312
  6. #6Matthew37,834
  7. #7Joshua36,052
  8. #8John35,274
  9. #9Robert34,266
  10. #10Joseph30,185
  11. #3,838Akbar10
More about 1980

boys

1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 178,395 of them was named Akbar, which outranked 47.4% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akbar
  1. #3,615Willia11
  2. #3,615Winslow11
  3. #3,615Yee11
  4. #3,838Akbar10
  5. #3,838Ahron10
  6. #3,838Akash10
  7. #3,838Aldric10
  8. #4,134Abdiel9
  9. #4,134Abelino9
  10. #4,134Addis9

Tied with 295 names at #3,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. ↑ 381Gideon#1,370 → #989
  2. ↑ 296Bo#864 → #568
  3. ↑ 270Anson#1,137 → #867
  4. ↑ 266Dustan#1,255 → #989
  5. ↑ 255Dusty#614 → #359
Fallers
  1. ↓ 366Harris#991 → #1,357
  2. ↓ 362Tracey#842 → #1,204
  3. ↓ 331Jevon#780 → #1,111
  4. ↓ 321Kennith#937 → #1,258
  5. ↓ 267Levar#644 → #911

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1980 →